Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-18


or goblet; give me the water Of life; l
care not in what it comes to me-" Away
with all your hindFsncss OF, pride from
the Wells mouth.
Here IS another man who is kept back
from this w8ler Of life by the stone Of an
ondur2te heart, which lies over the mouth
Of the well. You have no more feeling
upon this subject than if God had yet to
do you the first kindness, or you mad to
do God the first wrong. Seated on His
lap all these years, His everlasting arms
sheltering you, where is your gratitude?
| Where IS your morning and evening
prayer? Where are your COnse-
Grated lives? l say to you as Daniel said
to Belshazzar: "Tne God in Whose hand
thy breath is, and all thy way, thou hast
not glorifed." If you treated anybody
as badly as you have treated God, you
would nave made five hundred apologies
yea, your whole life would have been
sn apology. Three times day you have
been seated at Gods table. Spring,
summer, autumn and winter He has ap-
propristely appareled you Your health
from Him, your companion from Him,
your children from Him, your
home from Him, all the bright
surrounding Of your life from Him.
Q, man, what dost thou with that
hard heart? Csust thou not feel one
throb Of gratitude toward the God that
made you, and the Christ who came TO
redeem you, and the Holy Ghost who has
all these veaTn been importuning you? II
you could sit down five minutes uuder the
tree Of a Sayiour's martyrdom, aud feel
his warm lie trlCkling on your forehead,
and cheek, snd hands, methinks you would
get some appreciation of what you o we
10 q crucided Jesus.
Heart of stone. 7elent relent,
Touched ~ Jesus cross suJdued;
see HIS body. mangled, rent.
Covered wi gore of blood
Sinf1l soul, what hast thou done
CruCiied the eternal SON
Jacob with a good deal Of tug and push
took the stone from the Wells mouth, 50
that the nocks might be watered. And l
would that this morning my word, blessed
of God, might remove the hindrances TO
your getting up to the gospel well. Yea,
| take it for granted that the work is
done, and now, like Oriental shepherds, |
proceed &c water the sheep.
Come, al We thirsty. You have an
undehned longing in your soul
You tried money making; that
did not satisfy you. You tried Ctce
under government; thGt did not ssuf7
you. You tried pictures and sculptures;
out works Of art did not satisfy you. You
are as much disconnected with this life a.
the celebrated French author who felt
that ne could not any longer endure the
misfOTtunss Of the WOEld, and WHO SAID:
CAT o'clock this afternoon l shall pnt
an end to my own existence. Meanwhile,
must toll on up to that tine tor The
su-tenauCe Of my family And ne
wrote on his book until the clCCk struck
four, when he folded up his manuscript
and, By his own hand, concluded his
earthly life. There are men in this house
who are perfectly disconnected. Unhappy
IN the past, unhappy to-dsy, to be unhappy
forever, unless you come TO this gOspe.
well. This satisfies the soul WITH high,
deep, alI-ahsorbing, and eternal salts
faction. ]. comes, AMI it offers the
most unfortunate man so much OF this
world as is best for him, and throws ali
heaven into the bargain. The wealth OF
CrOesus, and Of alI the Stewards, and Of
all the Barings, and ell the R0tbChiIds is
only poor, miserable shilling compared
with
THE ETERNAL FORTUNE
that Christ offers to-day. In the far L ST
there was king who used once year to
get on scales, while on the other side
the scales were placed gold and silver end
gems; indeed, enough were placed there
10 balance the king; then, at the close Of
the weighing, gil those treasures were
thrown among the pOpulSCe. But Christ
to-day steps en- one side the scales, and
on the other side are all the treasures Of
the universe, and He sSyS: Gan ere
yoUTs-all height, all depth, all length,
ell breadth, al eternity, all ere yours"
We don't appreciate the promise Of the
Gospel. When an aged clergyman was
dyiug-a man very eminent in the church
"a young theological student stood by
his size, and the aged man looked up and
said TO him. Cant you give me some
comfort in my dying hour" NO" said
the young man; ~ can't talk TO you on
this subject; you know al about it, and
have known II so long" "Wel," said
the dying man, "just reCite to me some
promises" The young man thought
moment, and he came TO this promise:
1.-THE blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth
from alI SIM" and the old man clapped
his hsnds, and in his dying moment said
That's last the promise / have been
waiting Tor. The blood Of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin" On, the warmth,
the grandeur, the magni1Cence Of the
promise.
Come. also, to this gospel well, 81 We
troubled. l do not suppose you have
escaped. Compare your view of this
life at fifteen years OF age with what your
view is of it at forty, or sixty, or seventy.
What great contrast of opinion! Were
you right then, or are you right now?
Two cups placed in your hands, the one
sweet cup, the other a sour cup. cup
Of Joy and cup of grief. Which has
been the nearest to being full, and out Of
which have you the more frequently
partaken? What different place Green
wood is from what it used to be? Once
it was 10 you q grind city Improvement,
and you went out on the pleasure eXcur-
sion, and you ran laughipgly up the
mound, and you criticised in ligh. way
the epitaph. But since the day When you
heard the bell toll az the gate when you
went in with the procession, il is
SAD PLACE,
end there is food OF rushing memories
that suffuse the eye and overmaster the
heart. on, you have had trouble, trouble, !
trouble. God only knows how much you
have had. 1t is wonder you have been
able to live through it. 1t is wonder